Sentences with phrase «using ancient materials»

The craftsmen who have shown themselves so skilled with wood and leather have been inventing new techniques for using ancient materials, specifically stone and glass, heavy materials that present use case challenges.

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If someone wanted to make papyrus the way the ancient Egyptians did, we know what the end result has to look like, the person trying to recreate it just has to keep trying different methods, using tools and materials we know existed at the time, until they get the right result.

The ancient schools that had not disappeared (Platonism and Aristotelianism in particular), removed from the ways of life that inspired them, «were reduced to the status of mere conceptual material which could be used in theological controversies.»

During the ancient times and even until this day, parents use traditional cloth as baby slings; although there are more sophisticated baby slings that are made of synthetic and nylon materials with added padding.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

But the collection is more than just a dookie archive; researchers from around the world can pull DNA fragments from the material, use plant matter stuck in the poo to re-create ancient diets («Look!

From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout human history.

«For example, when the skull has been shattered, because I am used to putting ancient bones together, I can use what I have learned from ancient materials.

The soft robotic scales are made using kirigami — an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties of a material.

James M. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc., co-author of the study and a world acclaimed archaeologist at FAU's Harbor Branch, who is the foremost authority on ancient textiles and materials such as those used in basketry.

Yet the citizens of Brak were already using imported materials to make fine goods in large workshops, including a marble - and - obsidian chalice and a stamp seal with the image of a lion being caught in a net — a classic symbol of kingship in the ancient Near East.

For the ancient DNA analysis, the team used methods pioneered by paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to recover and sequence genetic material left behind in sediments even after the plants that originally contained it have disintegrated.

I analyze these ancient stardust and interstellar materials isotopically using the Nano - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (NanoSIMS).

2018-04-07 14:31 Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.

Carbon dating is a technique scientists used to determine the age of ancient organic materials, such as animal fossils.

They can also be used to provide important information about ancient Egyptian writing materials and techniques and shed light on how Egypt was governed.

Using only the types of raw materials available to the ancient Greeks, students built their own machines and then tested them for distance and accuracy.

Cocciopesto and tadelakt made of lime, the same material that ancient Romans used to waterproof their thermal baths.

Due to the scarcity of wood, [1] the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun - baked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.

It featured the Great Plateau area and showed many new elements of the game, such as dodging, the creation of Food by collecting Materials, the use of enemy Weapons, the return of the Stamina Gauge, new mini-Dungeons called Ancient Shrines and the Sheikah Slate.

I use rich colours and gold leaf - the kind of materials that have been used since ancient times to express the wonder, joy and magic of the inner world - the imagination - where the artist is boss and anything can happen!

Her works use a methodical repetition of the same elements to recall the magnificence of ancient art by using ordinary materials.

In many of her performances, films, and sculptural installations, Vicuña utilizes natural and traditional materials to symbolize political and social struggles in her home country and beyond: her «Precarios» are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her «Quipus», using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their history.

Using a broad range of materials, media and new technologies, Lijn entwines ancient mythologies with science fiction in these key works, created in the 1980's.

While the exhibition includes pieces from centuries past, to highlight early use of the ancient geological material, the exhibition focuses on contemporary art from the 1970s onward.

18/6 - 10/8/2018 GLASS: WORK BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS explores this ancient and fascinating material that demands a high degree of skill from those who use it creatively.

He then uses an assortment of tools, including chisels and Japanese carving instruments to meticulously hand - sculpt each form, using imagery from skateboard culture as inspiration... Haroshi's technique is akin to the ancient Japanese tradition of building wooden Buddha statues, including the conservation of materials to minimise weight and embedding an object inside the sculpture.»

This exhibition, curated by Ann Elliott, explores this ancient and fascinating material that demands a high degree of skill from those who use it creatively.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Short on money for materials, in 1960 Clark first experimented with assemblage, using found blocks of wood and bicycle wheels to make what he would call «herms,» alluding to ancient Greek mile - markers adorned with a bust of the god Hermes, protector of travelers.

A descendant of some of Argentina's earliest rugmakers, Kehayoglou draws on this heritage (her work at Frieze uses material from her family's factory) to create lush woven landscapes that are at once ancient and contemporary.

Despite the use of industrially manufactured materials, such as synthetic straws, bells, metal rings and turbine vents, the sculptures recall folk handicrafts or ritualistic effigies of ancient civilisations and appear to be part of a remote, yet intimate community.

From the motor oil series as a commentary on the mid-century failed utopia of progress in Central America, to the recreation of ancient pigments and materials, Escobar uses abstraction as a ritual exercise to revisit the past.

Most recently, he has used felt, an ancient material made of lint, dust, silt, hair, to fabricate sculptures of overlooked objects and cliches such as a chair, a trash can or the Moon.

Other objects in the exhibition demonstrate the wide range of materials the ancient Egyptians used in their craft and artistic production, and the sophisticated techniques they perfected.

In looking at the art and craft of Ancient Egypt in the Cairo Museum, Riley recognised that the same colours had been used in all aspects of the Egyptians» material lives, from the decorative to the purely functional» (P. Moorhouse, «A Dialogue with Sensation: the Art of Bridget Riley,» in Bridget Riley, exh.

In his sculptural works he often uses reclaimed materials — ancient pottery and wood from destroyed temples — in a conceptual gesture that connects tradition with contemporary social concerns.

Even as Talkov infuses an ancient art with modern materials and a love of abstraction, she uses the same tools mosaicists have relied on for 2,000 years: a hammer and a wedged cutting implement called a hardie.

«If we increase the value of waste methane, that could change the whole story of carbon in the atmosphere, because we'd be collecting it and sequestering it into products... Instead of using ancient fossil carbons to make materials, you're using something that you already have.»

Reason being: those companies use climate models to identify the likely current locations where ancient sedimentary basins originally formed that collected the organic material that eventually, with time, climate change, sediment accumulation and continental drift, became petroleum reservoirs.

The ancient Romans may have pioneered the use of this crushed and baked version of limestone, but as a universal and ubiquitous building material, it began to appear only in the last 100 years.

We use extensive design and prototyping cycles, to develop our range of instruments using the best materials and techniques available both, ancient and modern.